With a single flick of her tail, the beautifully constructed residence trembled twice.
That kind of tail was quite handy, but she was still not used to it.
She twisted her supple waist, and in the next second, that huge tail transformed into two fair, long legs, half-hidden in the sheer gauze, an image of pure seduction.
"Sister, sister... what happened?"
Xiao Bai, Mao Mao, and Caiye, three little demons, rushed in, flustered.
Su Li half-lay on the small couch like a boneless creature, indifferently said, "It’s nothing..."
Xiao Bai cried snivelfully, "I thought it was that Black Chicken thief attacking us."
Mao Mao’s tail gave Xiao Bai a smack on the head, "Silly, with sister being so formidable, that Black Chicken Spirit would be seeking death if it dared to provoke us."
Caiye also spoke up, "Exactly, it’s only because Sister is kind-hearted. If she were any other Great Demon, that Black Chicken Spirit wouldn’t be able to keep its Demon Core safe."
Su Li raised an eyebrow, the original owner was truly...
A kind-hearted Great Demon.
She, a Black Snake undergoing a Transformation into a Great Demon, had sisters like little rabbits, little foxes, little wild chickens...
Weren’t all these part of a snake’s diet? Yet, she protected them behind her, like a mother hen with her chicks. If that wasn’t kindness, what was?
Xiao Bai said, "The mountain base is so dangerous, and Cuicui ran down the mountain again. Shouldn’t we go find her and bring her back?"
Mao Mao and Caiye too looked hopefully at Su Li.
Although they were indignant just before, once the anger subsided, this simple little demon began to worry about her little sister with whom she had lived for so many years.
She feared that Cuicui had fallen into the hands of Taoists or Mages.
Those Niu Bizi Taoists didn’t care whether they were good demons or not, and had never done any wrong; if they caught one, at best its Demon Core would be harvested.
A demon, once its Demon Core was gone, would virtually lose the chance to cultivate and be even worse off than a mortal.
In accordance with the original owner’s fondness for the Little Green Snake, on hearing Xiao Bai’s words, she would probably have sent the demons down the mountain to find her without a second thought about being upset.
However, Su Li merely waved her hand, unconcerned, "I was mistaken earlier. Cuicui seems to prefer life at the foot of the mountain. Though I am nominally your sister, in reality, I have no qualification to directly control you. Since her heart is not here, it’s better to let her be to avoid any resentment from her towards me."
The three little demons were shocked, confusion written all over their faces.
They thought silently, did Cuicui truly anger Sister this time? Did her words imply she was ready to wash her hands of her?
"I do not plan to stay in this place; it’s too close to the mortal world, and the impure energy is too dense."
"If you wish to, then stay here. If not, feel free to go out and explore..."
Xiao Bai initially wanted to plead for Cuicui, but when she heard that Sister seemed ready to abandon even them, how could she care about Cuicui?
Mao Mao, with a fox’s face, had fur that seemed to fade in and out of visibility from fright. With a squeak, she grabbed Su Li’s thighs, "Sister, are you not planning to keep us anymore?"
Just like two hundred years ago, on that afternoon, when she had escaped from the human’s trap and held onto her sister’s thigh.
But Su Li was not the original owner; she had no inclination to soften.
To be honest, the original owner had sheltered them for years, which was benevolence enough.
Over the years, the Spiritual Energy on this mountain had become increasingly inadequate, unable to keep up with her cultivation need.
If it weren’t for concern over these few little demons, the original owner would have left long ago.
After all, to transform into a Jiao, to become a Dragon, to ascend as a Demon Immortal, that was the original owner’s lifelong pursuit.
Su Li tugged at the two fox tails fluttering behind Mao Mao, "All this time, I’ve told you to focus on your cultivation, but you never took it seriously, preferring to frolic in the wilds and toy with the scholars who lived there. If only your powers were stronger now, you could have come with me."
Spiritual Power rich lands are always dominated by powerful Great Demons.
If Su Li were to switch to another mountain, it would be no different from snatching meat from others’ mouths, and with these little demons in tow, she would still need to expend energy to protect them.
Too tiring, Su Li was quite reluctant...
Having experienced a life of effortless winning in her previous incarnation, Su Li had become much lazier.
No longer paying attention to the little demons who still wanted to plead for mercy, Su Li waved her sleeve and, stepping on the moonlight, flew out of the steep cliff and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Sister has left..." said a dazed and disheartened Xiao Bai murmuring.
Wild Chicken Spirit Caiye’s tail exploded behind her, her charming face covered in frost, "It’s all Cuicui’s fault. If she hadn’t angered Sister, maybe Sister wouldn’t have left."
Fox Spirit Mao Mao also angrily chimed in, "It’s all her fault."
They didn’t understand why Sister would suddenly make this decision; the more they thought about it, the more they felt it was related to Su Li getting angry at Cuicui before.
Compared with their younger sister Cuicui, the three little demons naturally had a deeper affection for Sister Su Li, who had taken care of them for over two hundred years.
Now, they naturally resented the Little Green Snake.
Let alone worrying about her or going down the mountain to look for her. If Cuicui were before their eyes right now, they would band together and beat her up without hesitation.
Xiao Bai said, "Sister said our cultivation couldn’t keep up, so we should just cultivate well and once we become Great Demons, we can go look for Sister."
Mao Mao and Caiye’s eyes lit up, and they immediately returned to their own dens.
They turned a deaf ear to the outside world and cultivated with unprecedented effort.
Without Su Li’s orders and immersed in their cultivation, the three little demons naturally wouldn’t follow Sister’s orders like in their past life to go down the mountain and look for Xiaoqing.
After Su Li flew away, she sensed a place with extremely dense Spiritual Energy and flew over.
It was a pond filled with yin energy, with no living creatures around, not even living plants.
Now that her true form was a Black Snake, she could easily navigate underwater.
As for yin energy, as the original owner, she would have been helpless, fearing contamination and ruining her years of cultivation.
But for Su Li, it could be put to use.
Her Chaos Qi could contain all things and naturally could also absorb yin energy for her own use.
The dense Black Pond had solidified into substance and was also a form of energy display; aside from Evil Cultivators and Evil Demons who practiced specific Cultivation Techniques, one would have to measure one’s own ability to see if they could withstand the contamination.
Now that opportunely benefited Su Li, didn’t it?
She directly transformed into her Snake Body and burrowed into the Black Pond.
The water was stirred as it sensed an alien object intruding, and the yin energy in the Black Pond transformed into extremely fine blades, drilling directly into Su Li’s body.
In the water, a Black Snake with two small sharp horns protruding from its head emerged, its originally glossy scales eroded by the pond water, falling off along with the flesh.
Then came the meridians, the bone marrow...
Su Li felt intense pain.
The original owner’s thousand years of cultivation was simply no match for the yin-energy-transformed pond water.
Soon, apart from a snakehead, there was nothing left but a skeletal Snake Body.
Su Li quickly circulated the mental method of the Nameless Dao Scripture to slowly transform the constantly invading yin energy into Chaos Qi.
This process was slow and difficult.
Only after a full forty-nine days did the pain Su Li endured slowly start to lessen.